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Topological charge membranes and Goldstone boson propagation in QCD
H. B. Thacker
Both theoretical arguments and Monte Carlo observations indicate that the topological structure of the QCD vacuum consists of a laminated array of extended, coherent codimension-on…
Anomaly Inflow and Membranes in QCD Vacuum
H. B. Thacker, Chi Xiong
We study the membrane-like structure of topological charge density and its fluctuations in the QCD vacuum. Quark zero modes are localized on the membranes and the resultant gauge a…
Anomaly Inflow and Membrane Dynamics in the QCD Vacuum
H. B. Thacker, Chi Xiong
Large and holographic arguments, as well as Monte Carlo results, suggest that the topological structure of the QCD vacuum is dominated by codimension-one membranes which appe…
Chiral quark dynamics and topological charge: The role of the Ramond-Ramond U(1) Gauge Field in Holographic QCD
H. B. Thacker, Chi Xiong, A. Kamat
The Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto construction of holographic QCD in terms of D4 color branes and D8 flavor branes in type IIA string theory is used to investigate the role of topological…
Tachyonic crystals and the laminar instability of the perturbative vacuum in asymptotically free gauge theories
H. B. Thacker
Lattice Monte Carlo studies in SU(3) gauge theory have shown that the topological charge distribution in the vacuum is dominated by thin coherent membranes of codimension one arran…
Relics of Supersymmetry in Ordinary 1-flavor QCD: Hairpin Diagrams and Scalar-Pseudoscalar Degeneracy
Patrick Keith-Hynes, H. B. Thacker
The large- orientifold planar equivalence between SUSY Yang-Mills theory and ordinary 1-flavor QCD suggests that low-energy quark-gluon dynamics in QCD should…